Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-30
Especial Correspondcncc.l


October and Not in December.
Especial Correspondenccl
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Dere Edditer:
Fer some time past congress haint done
cnnything but adjourn from two to foar
times a week, with short sessions of an
hour er so, when it was in, and the bal
lance of the time takin recess and ef
thar is ennything that wcrres states
man to dcth it is that sort Of business /
mean them of us that comes here to take
kccr Of our country and our constituents,
and that amt fooln round fer politicle
pcrDusscs only, and amt got time and
money to spar. We hav been here now
scnCe the fust Monday in the month, and
haint done lick, and thar wont be moth
in done nforc the Crismas hOllerdays, and
we've got two weeks cr so then to rest and
rCCuperate and commence all over agn to
git reddy to resume our ardious laberS
after New Yercs
faint my place, mebbe, to find fault
with any of the pervisionS Of the cOnstitu-
ton er the b-laws, but | want to raise my
voice in these colyums and asst the power
Of the press, the greatest on this earth, to
help me in convincin my Teller colleges in
LEGISLATION for the best interests of this
CRATE and gloryious Repubick we all love
SO well that the first Monday in December
! aint no time at all fer the openin of con-
| CrcSs. In publick sentiment Crismus is q
| bigger thing than congress, and we've got
| to reckonze it in n publick manner not
withstandin it aint direck result Of our
republican Institutions ner is it a adj
! iunck egsacly of the Star Spangeled
| Banner, but thar ant no use
| l:uockin the whole preface of The
! Congressional Record all to sticks by
| lgyin our plans SOS to hav congress
! git its start jist when the new Crismus
) goods is gttin in the store winders and
| the wimmen and children air goin crazy,
and the stockins air gettin fOar sizes bigger
| than ushule. No stree. What we have
! got to do is to begin erler and git through
| quicker, and line agoin to perpose a bill,
or a constitutional amendment er some
thin else, that'll do the werk. pervidin
| that congress meets the first Monday in
October: then eff they want to change the
! date Of elections in the various states lie
| vote fer sech bill, eff mine is passed. all
rite
It's n pizen wind tho, that don't blow
| no good, and while we air watin to git
reddy Inc doin a land ofisc business
tendin to the wants of my constituents.
J Ef thar is ennything the self sacrifsin
J patriot loves, it is to help them as has
helped him, and as fer as my eXperents
goes. thars nifty flew of them amt pow
erful willin to be helped. All Of US states
men has Their full sheer of that kind Of
J servis to Their country, and tho we may
cuss some in private, we are very smilin
in publck. and will drop all hollis, when
one of our trusted lutenants comes on
TO Washington and asts us to help him
git n job
One of my frens that done yoman SER
Wis fer me at my last election, in carryin
two presinks, come to town this week and
put up with me fer three days, while l
showed my gratitude by takin him
round and interducin him. He's nifty good
teller, and not hard to pleeze and when
he said a job that would pay him $50 a
day was good enough fer him, felt re-
leeved, for | was shore that the republic
couldent afford to be ungrateful to pat
triot askn so little. So l told him Ide
fix him rite off, and the next mornin, /
went up to see one of our cabinet min
listers.
live got n low priced patriot in my
deestrick," says /, "that wants pull at
Uncle Sam fer about $3.50 day. Yure
my friend, and line yourn, and hes mine,
and what you do fer him you do fer me.
Between him and me its politics, but be
tween me and you its friendship, and |
asst the favor on them grounds intirely."
You see. Mr.. Eddter, a statesman's got
to be purity slick
well, jedge,n says he to me, ''if thar's
a man in this broad land of freedom Ide
like to do u faver fer its you; but you will
have to excuse me from doin ennything
personal myself"
| thanked him after found thar want
I ~
see another secretary. He referred me to
the assistant secretary, and he sent me to
his checf clerk, and he sent me to the cheef
of division, and he sent me to four er five
he'd clerks, and finely, when l got done
with EN- all, | still had "A unused patriot
on hands and no place to put him, The
next day | hunted up another secretary
, and run clean through his department,
and then | took my man around and inter
duced him to severl of my colleges in the
house AMI told him to waite a day or two,
and he's watin now.
e Washinton is full of watin patriots.
Some wants Ofises that pays about twist
e as mulch as they ever made in Their lives
i at home and some wants ennything they
1 kin git, so longs it's a government job
My mans this last kind, and Ide do emmy
} thing in the werld fer him | could do, but
! he wants me to do somethin | cant do, and
G I've got to lode him full of promises ano
e keep him in the national capital tell ht
, gets sick of it and goes back home, cussir
a the administrator and prazin me fer doiI
my duty to my constituents, but beir
cramped by narrer and unwise policy
on the part of the government, in its patrl
arkle keer of its oan material and ligitame
a Children.
q And this is only one case whar states
! man has got to step down from his higl
+. calm and Crope and gruvvel in the sub
3 luminary Affairs of life hav had as hiSl